Course Info: HACU-0291
| Course | HACU-0291 Bauhaus: Designing New Worlds |
| Long Title | The Bauhaus: Designing New Worlds |
| Term | 2019S |
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Textbook information |
| Meeting Info | Emily Dickinson Hall 4 on M from 9:00-11:50 |
| Faculty | Karen Koehler |
| Capacity | 25 |
| Available | 16 |
| Waitlist | 0 |
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| Cumulative Skill(s) | Writing and Research |
| Additional Info | In this course, students can expect to spend 6-8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time. |
| Description | This course will explore the history, art, architecture, design, theater, and crafts of the German school, the Bauhaus, including relationships to the cultural philosophy of the Frankfurt School. We begin with World War I, the German Revolution, and the controversies surrounding the Bauhaus during the Weimar Republic; study the closure and exile of the Bauhaus by the Nazis; and consider Bauhaus legacies, including World War II, the Cold War, and 21st-century perspectives emerging from the Bauhaus centennial in 2019. We will look at the work of architects, artists and writers (Walter Gropius, Hannes Meyer, Mies van der Rohe, Lilli Reich, Paul Klee, Marianne Brandt, Oskar Schlemmer, Wassily Kandinsky, Gunta Stölzl, Moholy-Nagy, Anni Albers, Rainer Maria Remarque, Walter Benjamin, Bertolt Brecht, Theodor Adorno, and Siegfried Kracauer). All students will be responsible for advanced research, reading, speaking and writing; in-depth final research projects can be scholarly papers, curatorial experiments, art projects, or architectural designs. |